Economic Trends Fanatic Mugs

"O.K., Steve, Act One—the go-go eighties. Yuppies, Wall Street, the penthouse on Park, that sort of thing. Act Two—the nineties. Recession, depression, banks going under, blah, blah, blah. You and Denise are out on the street. Act Three—ba-da-boom! Suddenly it's the fin de siecle!"

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

"Tariffs love me...tariffs love me not..."

Entering the Business Community: Assets/Liabilities

"DeepSeek" "Stargate"

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"Do you promise to love, honour and contribute to the gross national product?"

"The economy always seems to be recovering, but it never recovers."

Annual profits,

'The good news is, we did as well as expected last quarter. The bad news is, we didn't expect to do too well.'

"O.K. he's a billionaire, but how much of it is in cash?"

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

"It's time to retire the word 'profit'."

Fiscal cliff - US dollar falling over the edge.

'He's downgrading the credit agencies.'

G7 Summit Concern

Economy - USA.

Slipping and sliding down the slope...

"For details on the bear market, here's a bear..."

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

I'm over-educated and under-employed. That's why there's no MIDDLE class anymore.

'This is where I hang out until bullishness makes a comeback.'

The Greek Trampoline

'Remember, an economic boom is usually followed by an economic kaboom,'

Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and David Cameron are ecstatic about the possibility of a free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.

That Awkward Moment When You Discover That Wall Street's Insanity Is Helping You

His temperature appears to rise and fall with the FT index

"I don't like the look of this."

"Apparently over 50% of people never look at their pension plans!"

'As the government sees it, the U.S. budget would be fine if more deficit earners like you, Mr. Wald, go on the ball!'

"The Gross National Product and the Gross Domestic Product are doing okay. It's the Gross Domestic Mojo that's going down the toilet."

Out.

Chinese stock market

'Crisis'

U.S. Credit Rating